A People at War

Introduction: A People at War. FROM COMPROMISE TO CHAOS: 1854-1861. 1. The Road to Bleeding Kansas. 2. From Wigwam to War. THE CHANGING FACES OF WAR: 1861-1863. 3. Friends and Foes: Early Recruits and Freedom's Cause, 1861-1862. 4. Union Occupation and Guerilla Warfare. 5. Facing Death. POLITICAL, MILITARY, AND DILPOMATIC REMEDIES: 1862-1865. 6. Two Governments Go to War: Southern Democracy and Northern Republicanism. 7. Redefining the Rules of War: The Lieber Code. 8. Diplomacy in the Shadows: Cannons, Sailors, and Spies. THE WAR HITS HOME: 1861-1865. 9. We Need Men: Union Struggles over Manpower and Emancipation. 10. The Male World of the Camp: Domesticity and Discipline. 11. "Cair, Anxiety, & Tryals": Life in the Wartime Union. 12. War's Miseries: The Confederate Home Front. REBUILDING THE NATION: 1865-1877. 13. A Region Reconstructed and Unreconstructed: The Postwar South. 14. A Nation Stitched Together: Westward Expansion and the Peace Treaty of 1877. Acknowledgements. Political Chronology. Military Chronology. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index